UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

Sense 1: without understanding, senseless, foolish

Semantic entry: 32.49

Semantic domains: Understand

Subdomains: Lack of Capacity for Understanding

Definition: pertaining to a lack of capacity for insight and understanding

Notes: Care must be exercised in the rendering of ἀσύνετος in RV MAT 15:16 · LV MAT 15:16 · Read together MAT 15:16 and RV ROM 1:21 · LV ROM 1:21 · Read together ROM 1:21, since a lack of capacity for understanding may result from mental deficiencies or from a lack of the proper use of mental capacity. It is, of course, this latter meaning which is involved in the use of ἀσύνετος in these contexts.